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The Ballsy Bike Safari of Rougesage

                    #Checkpoint 1

            The River Blackwater

I leaped forward to catch the drowning almost dying Juana wriggling my hand from K's strong clutches, but soon I heard the loud bullet splashes on the ripples of the river water, freshly ten to twenty times shot in the direction of the gigantic crocodiles,  it was angled in minimum Forty Five degree, roughly I could estimate , one giant crocodile was dead as the blood coagulated with the fresh water and the whole water colored changed from the deep blue to musky red , other crocodiles were shooed away and everyone watched this whole scene with an extreme disconsolate expression , while Juana's body dropped into the water with a large thump and some of the chaperones from the racing committee came for her rescue , because the law was violated , and to our horror the man who had shot bullet was in a black leathery coat and a big black bike boots, his head ducked in full faced helmet all tactical black in color, he had appeared from no where, standing at a distant from us , I ran toward the Juana to let her wet body to soak , she was still under the high effect of drugs, may be by seeing the other bikers I could say she had been given overdoses of morphine , they didn't look like they had been over drugged or were weedy because they were perfectly standing on their feet not a single stances of any kind of wobbliness or dizziness I could retract , while the race had been staggered for a while and Juana was still under the effect , the bullet man was disappeared as the race team chased after him , it was all illegal and also against the animal protection act ,

Mysteries had again started resurfacing them , and here I hadn't got past over the unsolved  murders in the Rougesage , Juana was transferred into one of the rest camps , which they had built up in several spots , it was barely a tent with a hospital bed and some raw medical boxes , placed upon the tables , basically this was a tent house in a cream colors lanterns with their off shady glistening faded lights shining and lighting the whole forest area , this tent was supported only on the four pegs and some strong oak trees,

it was giving this whole thing a military touch where militants are allowed to live and take rest in their temporary rest house made from a piece of cloth , in the name of toilets there were some small toilets like the same one which we had in beaches , not attached located pretty far from the tent house ,



Tent house where Juana is staying and valentina helping her ...;) tell me about how do you like it in comments

I took a seat near her as it had been a proper one room house with some bamboo stools or some wooden chairs , a usual glass of water and a jug were spotted near the small stool beside her small hospital sized iron bed , a glucose needle piercing her lifeless skin , and her face showing no sign of her haughtiness , it seemed like she had been dead or was in a coma her body showing no signs of liveliness, it had been dark enough , like some eight in the night , because I had come past waiting for Leigh in the restaurant at five p.m and then K and me riding up to come here , race taking one hour more and the chaos which had been occurred , this race was futile ,

I stared on the morphed face of Juana , and suddenly I felt of shaking her body and slapping hard on her stupid face , for indulging into such dangerous stuff, the race was a halted for sometime and I don't know for how many days it would be disposed off,  I marched back and forth , they did allowed me to stay near her when I showed them enough proofs of me being Juana's best friend and her roommate ,

K was stuck back at males barricades , and suddenly I got the feeling that how much we need to clear the air between us, I propped my head on my elbow and took a seat , suddenly the tent house curtain was moved and my head shot up to meet with those deep hazel eyes K...he was here  ....I almost got stood up and we both were silent by the awkward feeling , I started fisting the edge of my new button down shirt , it was a normal one with no designs and color given to me by race committee just same as they give the orange color to prisoners ,  but it was dark algae green .

" Hi ...." Suddenly he blurted while his gaze was sternly fixed on the front wall of tent house , while his hands were still inside his pockets of his jeans which was again the same tight skinny jeans , which he had wore back to the restaurant , my dress was replaced at the changing room and I had no option but to ask for a shirt to wear , and they just offered me a service girl shirt whose sleeves reached only above my elbow , while a blue ripped off jeans was a simple bottom wear , but it was too tightly fitted over my skin that it barely caged my buttocks , my shape of legs were actually showing up in it .

" Hello....Please have a seat !" I offered him a near by bamboo chair which he took with no offense,

For about twenty minutes , neither of us did speak and nor do we tried to let out any conversation , his cockiness was gone my anger for him , was dissolved , we both were discovering something about us , the thing that was still difficult for us to understand , we were not couples , we we were not even those horrible exes meeting first time after the nasty breakup , we had this another type of chemistry bubbling between us ,

" How's she ?" He replied breaking the ice between us, and me from my euphoria ,

" Umm....I mean she would be getting up within five hours, doctor said she had taken over doses on purpose , that had badly infected her brain but doctor had injected some antidote called Naloxone to counteract the effect of drug, " I let out a sigh while telling him about the medications she received an hour ago,

" And ....what...about you ? Are you doing well , Valentina ?" His eyes soften for a moment and I had for second , looked concerned filled in them for me , or may be I m very much imagining the things , I shook my head , I still remember how he had left me all alone at Slieve Croob at two a.m , the same person who had pushed me off several number of times was now acting all caring and protective , doesn't this situation feels like I m a shit ,  allowing him again and again to barge into my life and giving him the honor of being my safeguard ,

Instead of voicing my inner fear and messed up emotions,  that ' No! Ryan a.k.a  K or Ryan Vaughan, I m no good , hell I m a sober walking up zombie shit and I really want a bear hug from you and want that pink kissable lips of yours over mine and want to kiss the hell out of you , curling my toes up and you bringing me close enough to yourself clinging my face to your hulk like body,

I decided to talk against it ,I gave him a very cold response, even it felt more like a stale food frozen in a refrigerator just like that my reply came for him,

" I m in good shape .....is anything else do you want ?" I tried to keep it simple and remained unaffected by his new persona, unlike how I wanted to buried my head against his broad chest and ripped shoulders and how I want his aftershave smell to inhale in me, but I would never ever tell him in his face, that I truly want him now to hug me or to kiss me , to tell me everything will be okay , because nor does he had done this before and neither he would do it so today , at present , he was one uptight person , he was that cold hearted person who had always insulted me in many ways , and I only had hurt myself and my heart in this whole one side love process, it's better this way.

" Nothing...I think I should leave now ..." I knew he got the hint of my stiffness towards him, I sensed that my behaviour hurt him , may be a little because he looked shocked , sad and all of the above broken ....

I just nodded and he got stood up giving me a view of his tall length , and sturdy built up , rubbing away the invisible dust from his pants , I turned away my face and he slowly detached his handsome face from myself , started heading towards the door, I closed my eyes never letting my blurry eyes to drop a tear off on my face , my lips sealed , they felt chapped when I pressed them together , and after a second , when I turned around , I still found him standing near the exit of the door, why didn't he left ? May be he wanted me to say something to him, or may be he once again want to see my vulnerabilities , whatever was the reason , I never let out a word , and he only let out one word ...

" Goodnight ....Valentina !!" With that he left the room , never waiting for my response , even I wanted to give him one , for one second ,I thought he would make his fast striding towards me , would grab my hairs and would shove his long tongue running inside my mouth , holding me tightly and enveloping me away from this nostalgic feeling , but he did never return and I never went after him , instead of imagining him I wrapped my hands around myself , there was another knock on the cloth wall of tent , and I told to come in , hoping that it was K again, but my hopes were totally false , he was some sort of a room service man ,but you can't label him like the one, he was a short height fatty man with a cap that says Ballsy .co 

" Yes.....what do you want ?" I inquired , while I had been just sitting as my phone wasn't with me , they had taken the charge of it at the time I dressed up for the race ,

" Mam....actually I was here to return you your phone and purse and your clothes, while a packet of food and mineral water for today's dinner is also arranged for you to have ,so just in case you need something else , you could ask it for !" He gave me his genuine smile , as they had taught him how to behave polite to their participants , they must have received much funding to organise such big illicit secret racing here ...may be the gangster mafia or their boss owned this whole village and forest or may be he just had encroached it , .....

" Thomas ....right ?" I asked him for his name, as I read it from his uniform label , where it had written his name , Thomas Jeffrey.

" Yes ! "

" Please put all those things on that table and ya, I had one query that as there's only single bed , which ....you could see is already occupied by my sick friend , so if there's any arrangements for bed , because I m very much tired and needed a quick rest , it would be nice , if I'd get the one plus a mosquito repellent , there's a lot !"  I had listed him a long errands to run for myself , because I totally find it scarce for not having a double bed , and my eyes were really calling it off to sleep ,

" Sorry mam, for the inconvenience! There's a folding bed and a comforter in storage rooms for participants and in case for mosquitoes I would arrange you a mosquito repellent & cream and lotion , I must bring it for you , anything else mam ?" He expressed his apology and I just nodded letting a big yawn put of my face , he looked dazed and blushed and I laughed a little , an awkward fake laugh to just hide my indecency, it doesn't matter even if he was just a mere volunteer, I just yawned a lot , even Juana had teased me often due to my yawning habit .

" No, nothing much, but if you could arrange more pillows and one extra duvet for me , then it would be easy for me, as I feel a little more cold than others , well tell me one thing, how did you guys managed to get this electricity in this tent house , I mean it's impressive that a tent house had electric connection , the lamps and tube light are just giving me some peace , and a standing fan , ya by the mention of standing fan , also bring me one standing fan , as My friend need that one , so I must need the one in case, sorry for bothering you too much....haha!" Again , I was being a true weirdo today, laughing like some maniac but shifting with Juana in her personal hostage , I must make some comforting prep for me too,

As it is going to be a long night to go , and you can't just stay without any comforter and bed , I can't sleep on floors without any comforter , may be some wild insects or animals may crawl after all it 's a village area and upon all it was a jungle area too...

"No it's okay mam, no! Problem , I would be getting these things , let me note down in my notepad !" With these he noted down the things needed to be delivered for me , with this he was about to vanish , but I suddenly got a flash of itching thought in my mind,

" Excuse me, Thomas ? Who did sent you here by your own ! As I could see , I don't even had cell phone to ring for a proper room service !" I let out my doubt , how did a room service or whatever they must call it , came by its own without me calling them for my necessities...

" Mr. Vaughan told me to assist you with the things you needed like bed or anything, sorry is there any problem mam ?" And the moment, he told me that Mr. Vaughan or I  must addressed him better as K !

" No ....it's absolutely fine, just wanted to know the name of my helping fellow , do you know K , I mean Mr. Vaughan for years, because you sounds so familiar with his name !" One more query , and it did a rapid quick doubt to be cleared, because he told his name with very firmness , and being a crime journalist , I had been very fine on taking details , 

" Ya, He used to be one of the board member of Ballsy racing tournament , but then he detached himself from the Board team due to some personal reason !' His new coming revelation shook me to root , K !! As if Mr. Vaughan was the board member of this tournament , no doubt he was , because first , he was so confident in himself that he knew this secret place of illegal racing which even police department had failed , second the way he negotiated the rules for us taking part in this racing like avoiding drugs intake, even when every participants had been injected the drugs , the quick last time entry as the wild card participants, these all now make sense , and one minute , he was the board member , that means , that means he had been living here since ages , right ?? So that new comer or the new admission in our college that was all....oh god ! No! That was all fake , the web of lies .....that means when at first day of my college , the Juana yelled at him , they both had known each other previously and his DCMC corporations and the gang members which trailed him when he did kidnapped me , were all the part of this mafia gang , which parallel runs this illegal game , that means , he must be !! No ! It couldn't , he must be that secret mafia leader ...

I gasped for some air , while I never had known should it be , the connection with gorgon , that's why he did pushed me away from himself ...so that I couldn't revealed his big secret , why did he enrolled in our college , why did Professors even professor Murphy  treated him with no offence , he was allowed to leave classes at middle , he was allowed to argue with teachers , but as per my knowledge he was that spoiled brat of our senator Mr. Benjamin Roosevelt!!

I dismissed Thomas after asking some questions but that didn't helped much that means he was the older resident of Rougesage, so why this fake new neighbourhood drama, is this involved a bigger part of any big conspiracy , what more secrets were about to unveil !! I looked at Juana for last time , she had lied to me about K , I clenched my fist in side ways and closed my eyes....this K is really a Kerplunk as called by Casper Davidson ...I hate him from all my guts ....K or Ryan Vaughan or Mr. Benjamin's Son , who is our New Mayor ...many mysteries many theories and many conspiracies , I drifted my mind to that bullet man who saved Juana from getting mutilated by crocodiles .....Now bigger question was ,who was that bullet man ??